Cross-domain sharing specification for user interaction data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing website systems fail to effectively share user interaction information across domains while preserving privacy, leading to a loss of valuable data that could enhance the browsing experience.
Innovation Solution
A cross-domain sharing specification is generated, updated, and managed, allowing users to selectively share user interaction information between domains through a user-defined and user-controlled mechanism, using a data model that includes user identifiers, domain identifiers, timestamps, and sharing time constraints, enabling the sharing of specific types of user interaction information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If user information is stored locally on each website domain, then privacy is preserved, but user interaction information cannot be shared across domains leading to loss of valuable data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments user information into different types (interaction information vs. other personal information) and implements selective sharing mechanisms. Users can choose which segments of their information to share across domains, resolving the contradiction by allowing beneficial information sharing while maintaining privacy protection for other data segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (cross-domain sharing specification and user interface) that mediates between local privacy protection and cross-domain information sharing. This intermediary allows users to control information flow between domains, enabling valuable interaction data to be shared while maintaining user privacy control.
2Ease of operation
If user information is not shared across domains, then privacy is maintained, but browsing experience cannot be enhanced through targeted content updates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic information sharing model where users can adjust their sharing preferences at any time. The cross-domain sharing specification can be updated to reflect changing user preferences, allowing the system to adapt between privacy protection and experience enhancement based on user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of information sharing from a binary state (shared or not shared) to a configurable state with multiple levels and types. Users can specify different sharing parameters for different types of information, enabling nuanced control that balances browsing experience enhancement with privacy concerns.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a cross-domain sharing system is implemented, then user data can be utilized across domains, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal cross-domain sharing specification that can handle multiple types of user information and apply to multiple domains through a single unified mechanism. This multi-functional approach reduces system complexity by using one versatile framework rather than separate mechanisms for each domain or information type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where users manage their own information sharing preferences through a user interface. This eliminates the need for complex centralized management systems, as users autonomously control which information is shared, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
Examples relate to managing cross-domain information. The examples disclosed herein relate to generating a cross-domain sharing specification that comprises an identifier of a first domain and at least one type of user interaction information that a first user enables for cross-domain sharing. The at least one type of user interaction information may be selected from a plurality of types of user interaction information related to the first domain. The examples relate to obtaining, from the first domain, user interaction information corresponding to the at least one type of user interaction information and storing the user interaction information in the cross-domain sharing specification.